Tennis News
At €3.36M Madrid Masters, Spain (red clay)

[QF] (6) Mahesh Bhupathi (IND)/ Rohan Bopanna (IND) l Jeremy Chardy (FRA)/ Lukasz Kubot (POL) 26 46

Mahesh-Rohan lost easily against Chardy-Kubot in straight sets.
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At $125K Kunming Challenger, China,

[SF] (3) Divij Sharan (IND)/ Purav Raja (IND) l (2) Samuel Groth (AUS)/ John-Patrick Smith (AUS) 26 67(5)

Lost against 2nd seed Aussie pair in straight sets ... In the first set Aussie pair broke them thrice and our pair broke them one ... In the second set Aussie pair converted 1 from 4 break point chances and our pair managed to convert only 1 from 9 chances ... In tie-break our pair saved couple of match point on their serve from 3-6 but Aussie converted 3rd match point on their own serve.
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At $50K Karshi Challenger, Uzbekistan

[SF] Prakash Amritraj (IND,370) l (7) Albot Radu (MDA,246) 16 0-3 Retd.

Ka$h had off day and he started with making numerous unforced errors ... Radu kept ball in the play and Ka$h was making errors ... After losing the first set easily Ka$h retired in the second after losing first 3 games.
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At $15K India F5 Futures, Rohtak

Singles Semi Finals
(4) Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) bt (5) Vijayant MALIK (IND) 60 46 61
(3) Saketh MYNENI (IND) bt (2) Jeevan NEDUNCHEZHIYAN (IND) 62 62

Doubles Final
(1) Saketh MYNENI (IND)/ Arun-Prakash RAJAGOPALAN (IND) bt (2) N.Sriram BALAJI (IND)/ Ranjeet VIRALI-MURUGESAN (IND) 64 63

Excellent dominated win by Saketh against Jeevan ... Ranjeet also surprised with his win over Vijayant.
Saketh and Arun-Prakash won the doubles title with straight sets victory.